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Michigan Senate advances and final-passes a package of judiciary, public-safety and vehicle-code bills
Summary
The Michigan Senate advanced several health- and judiciary-related measures to third reading and recorded final passage votes on a package of bills, including measures amending the judicature act, municipal liability rules and the Michigan Vehicle Code; recorded tallies were announced from the floor.
The Michigan Senate on Tuesday moved a block of bills through final action, advancing several to third reading earlier in the day and recording final passage votes on multiple measures spanning criminal justice, judiciary procedure, municipal liability and the vehicle code.
Senators advanced floor substitutes on committee-reported measures (including a Hertel substitute for SB219 and a Voyno substitute for SB222) and the committee of the whole recommended concurrence. The chamber then proceeded to third reading and final passage votes on calendar items called in sequence.
Among items the Senate recorded final passage votes on the floor were: Senate Bill 78 (amending the act to provide for setting aside convictions in certain criminal cases), Senate Bills 257, 258 and 259 (amendments to the Revised Judicature Act of 1961), Senate Bills 260 and 261 (municipal liability and related government-liability provisions), and Senate Bills 137, 138 and 139 (amendments to the Michigan Vehicle Code and changes to the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act).
Floor procedures proceeded without extended debate on the listed bills. The secretary announced vote tallies as recorded on the floor for each final passage call; for example, the secretary announced counts for several bills as “25 aye votes, 9 no votes, and 3 excused” and for vehicle-code and natural-resources items as “33 aye votes, 1 no vote, and 3 excused,” as announced during the session.
The committee of the whole also reported SB219 and SB222 with amendments, recommending that those amendments be concurred in; the Senate concurred and placed the bills on the order of third reading.
What happens next: the bills that passed on final passage will move to enrollment and then to the governor’s desk unless further action is taken. Specific bill texts, committee reports and floor substitutes cited on the session web are available from the Senate’s public calendar.
